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Chinese symbol for “games”

博弈
bó yì
games (such as chess, dice etc); gambling; contest

The closest CC-CEDICT match for games is 博弈 (bó yì), defined as: games (such as chess, dice etc); gambling; contest.

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Characters and stroke order

博 bó
to gamble, to play games; to win; rich, plentiful, extensive; wide, br
radical 24 ⼗ · 12 strokes
弈 yì
Chinese chess
radical 55 ⼶ · 9 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 博弈.

WordPinyinMeaning
博士bó shìdoctor (as an academic degree); (old) person specialized in a skill or trade
博物馆 (博物館)bó wù guǎnmuseum
博客bó kè(loanword) a blog; a blogger
微博wēi bómicroblogging; microblog
赌博 (賭博)dǔ bóto gamble
博览会 (博覽會)bó lǎn huìan exposition; an international fair
对弈 (對弈)duì yìto play go, chess etc
博弈论 (博弈論)bó yì lùngame theory

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.